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Video on Demand

Enjoy high-quality media services on a one-stop video-on-demand (VOD) platform, including audio/video production, upload, storage, transcoding, media processing, media AI, accelerated delivery and playback, and copyright protection.

Video on Demand
$10 million
Over 10 million dollars saved by customers with smart cold storage
3 billion+
More than 3 billion playbacks per day with the Player SDK
2800+
Covers 2,800+ global CDN cache nodes
99.5%
Delivers a 99.5% success rate for large file uploads under poor network conditions
Benefits
Industry-Leading Upload Acceleration
Industry-Leading Upload Acceleration

Upload media files conveniently with multiple upload methods offered by VOD. Its multi-origin upload acceleration solution reaches a 99.5% success rate for file uploads under poor network conditions.

Unique Smart Cold Storage
Unique Smart Cold Storage

Customize cold storage policies based on playback frequency, storage duration, and other metrics. VOD's smart cold storage feature has helped customers worldwide reduce their storage costs by over 10 million dollars.

All-Around Copyright Protection
Comprehensive Copyright Protection

Eliminate security risks such as piracy, unauthorized recording and download, and hotlinking with VOD's proprietary encryption solution that can quickly and accurately track the IDs of malicious users.

VOD and Live Streaming
Live-to-VOD

‌Convert live streams to on-demand content and generate more traffic at a low cost with integrated features such as live recording, live clipping, pseudo-live streaming, time shifting, and smart cold storage.

Clearer and Smarter Transcoding Service
Clearer and Smarter Transcoding Service

Take advantage of Top Speed Codec transcoding and real-time hot/cold media asset recognition, which have helped leading media customers reduce their transfer and storage costs by over 50%.

Media Content Processing
Media Content Processing

Boost your business with dozens of media processing features that deliver faster transcoding speed, better compression ratio, and higher image quality.

Accurate and Efficient AI Recognition
Accurate and Efficient AI Recognition

Leverage AI technology to recognize and analyze images, audio, and videos for better content moderation, creation, and management as well as personalized video recommendations.

Best-in-Class Media SDKs
Best-in-Class Media SDKs

Provide a better, faster, and smoother VOD service that is optimized based on over 3 billion daily playbacks and 10 million daily short video edits.

Comprehensive Playback Quality Monitoring
Comprehensive Playback Quality Monitoring

Collect, aggregate, and filter multidimensional playback statistics in real time, visually analyze service metrics, and comprehensively monitor service quality.

Product Architecture

Tencent Cloud VOD provides users with cloud-integrated audio/video on-demand services. With VOD, you can easily upload video files to the cloud through local upload, URL pull, API, SDK for web, the UGSV SDK, or live recording. Once they are on the cloud, you can process your media files with a variety of features, such as Top Speed Codec and multi-bitrate transcoding, screen capturing, video encryption, watermarking, and AI recognition. For video playback, delivery is accelerated through globally deployed CDN nodes. And with the video player's multi-platform compatibilities, VOD offers complete and reliable data quality monitoring.

Product Architecture
Scenarios

Short Video

Creative short video, interactive chat, and ecommerce

Long Video

Online education, video website, and TV

Live-to-VOD

Ecommerce, game, culture, and entertainment live streaming

Short Video

Short Video

Capabilities

  • VOD lets users create videos with their own devices using a variety of capabilities, including video capturing, editing, special effects, beauty filters, green screen keying, and animated stickers.
  • It offers playback SDKs for major platforms, as well as accurate playback quality monitoring and AI capabilities including smart thumbnail generation, video labeling, and content moderation.

Long Video

Long Video

Capabilities

  • VOD offers multiple transcoding formats, adaptive bitrate streaming, and Top Speed Codec transcoding, which achieves a high image quality at a low bitrate.
  • Comprehensive copyright protection prevents hotlinking and piracy of media assets.
  • Powerful AI capabilities can automatically recognize faces, speech, and text.

Live-to-VOD

VOD and Live Streaming

Capabilities

  • Cold storage policies for live stream recordings effectively reduce storage costs for live stream moderation.
  • Live recording enables time shifting for live stream videos, as well as real-time clipping and on-demand delivery.
  • Pseudo-live streaming capabilities give you more control during high-risk, unpredictable live streaming events, with no additional storage needed.
Scenarios
Short Video

Capabilities

  • VOD lets users create videos with their own devices using a variety of capabilities, including video capturing, editing, special effects, beauty filters, green screen keying, and animated stickers.
  • It offers playback SDKs for major platforms, as well as accurate playback quality monitoring and AI capabilities including smart thumbnail generation, video labeling, and content moderation.
Long Video

Capabilities

  • VOD offers multiple transcoding formats, adaptive bitrate streaming, and Top Speed Codec transcoding, which achieves a high image quality at a low bitrate.
  • Comprehensive copyright protection prevents hotlinking and piracy of media assets.
  • Powerful AI capabilities can automatically recognize faces, speech, and text.
VOD and Live Streaming

Capabilities

  • Cold storage policies for live stream recordings effectively reduce storage costs for live stream moderation.
  • Live recording enables time shifting for live stream videos, as well as real-time clipping and on-demand delivery.
  • Pseudo-live streaming capabilities give you more control during high-risk, unpredictable live streaming events, with no additional storage needed.
Trusted By
Tencent Classroom
Tencent Classroom

Tencent Classroom uses VOD's unique smart cold storage feature to greatly reduce storage costs. Moreover, it protects the copyright of its numerous course videos with VOD's encryption and watermarking capabilities.

Dianping
Dianping

Dianping uses VOD to efficiently generate hundreds of thousands of thumbnails and animated previews to showcase cuisine from merchant videos. It also utilizes Top Speed Codec transcoding to deliver a smooth browsing experience for users while reducing the traffic costs by over 50%.

DouYu
DouYu

‌DouYu has used VOD capabilities throughout its journey to success. The live-to-VOD integrated solution effectively improves the live streaming experience for users, enables live stream moderation, and safeguards the long-term healthy growth of DouYu's live streaming platform.